Our partners
Our partnerships are based on shared values indispensable for project success: transparency and mutual respect.
Convinced of the effectiveness of building win-win partnerships, with development organizations or universities that share our mission, we continuously strive to develop synergies between complementary competences. This enables us to carry out adapted sustainability projects with a long-term regional impact.
ORGANIZATIONS
IECD (Safacam and Socapalm, Cameroon)
Since 2014, two agricultural family schools have been established at Socapalm and Safacam in Cameroon to facilitate local socio-economic development.
The schools aim at educating youngsters from the region in professions and rural entrepreneurship (agricultural production, small livestock, crafts, processing, etc.)
Profile: IECD supports human and economic development through education, training, improved job access for young people and entrepreneurship.
The Réal Madrid Fondation (Agripalma, Sao Tomé-and-Principe)
Partner of Agripalma since 2019 to promote holistic development of children and young people through sport.
Profile: To promote the inherent values of sport and the role of the latter as an educational tool that can contribute to the comprehensive personality development of those who play it.
EF
Since 2016, EF assists the Socfin Group with the development and implementation of its responsible management policy in its subsidiaries by performing field missions with its teams. The foundation also helped develop this transparency dashboard.
Profile: EF supports companies, farmers, NGO’s and governments in developing solutions for the social and environmental challenges in the large supply regions.
PSI Cambodia (Socfin-KCD, Cambodia)
Supports the company’s medical team through training in prevention, treatment and follow-up of malaria cases.
ACMS (Socapalm, Cameroon)
Supports us with the implementation of a family planning program within our plantations’ health centers.
Profile: ACMS, member of PSI, fights against waterborne diseases, malaria and promotes family planning.
Elizabeth Gazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation (SOGB, Côte d’Ivoire)
Supports SOGB in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in its health centers.
Profile: EGPAF works with country governments and local partners to implement health care programs: prevention, HIV care and treatment, maternity care, nutrition and general well-being, as well as sexual health and reproductive services.
CAZ (Trahe and Heke Village)
The project aims to create a zero-deforestation supply chain. This partnership with SoGB gives way to the replanting of old rubber plantations by agroforestry in particular.
INSTITUTIONS & UNIVERSITIES
DEG
Co-financed long-term projects of the Socfin Group focusing on health and education. These projects aimed at intensifying HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, for employees and their families, as well as for the surrounding communities, in highly affected countries where the Group operates (DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Liberia).
Profile: The DEG encourages
private sector initiatives in future markets and develops solutions for steady growth in collaboration with its clients and partners.
Ghent University
Cooperates with the Socfin Group on tissue culture and micropropagation of the rubber tree. Clonal trees multiplied by microcutting in the lab are seen as an alternative to the traditional plant material propagated by budgrafting on unselected rootstock seedlings. Field trials in Ivory Coast and Indonesia will soon enable Socfin to validate the concept of superiority in terms of yield and wind resistance. In Indonesia, Socfin has established its own tissue culture lab.
Profil: The Ghent Universities is among the highest ranking regarding agricultural R&D. A biotech hub including spin offs, start-ups and research institutes has turned Ghent into a reputed biotechnology knowledge centre. Socfin has started its partnership with UGhent in 2008.
PalmElit
Collaborates with the Socfin Group to obtain the most productive and disease-resistant palms, in order to optimize the planted areas and to reduce the use of sanitary control methods, two results that will have a significant impact on the preservation of the environment. This research is supervised by our two laboratories: Camseeds in Cameroon and Socfindo in Indonesia.
Profile: PalmElit conducts genetic improvement and marketing programs for oil palm seeds in order to provide family farms and agro-industries with a steady income.